| 7:1 |
And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, arriving from Jerusalem, gathered together before him. |
| 7:2 |
And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them. |
| 7:3 |
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders. |
| 7:4 |
And when returning from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which have been handed down to them to observe: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and bronze containers, and beds. |
| 7:5 |
And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?” |
| 7:6 |
But in response, he said to them: “So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. |
| 7:7 |
And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’ |
| 7:8 |
For abandoning the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, to the washing of pitchers and cups. And you do many other things similar to these.” |
| 7:14 |
And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: “Listen to me, all of you, and understand. |
| 7:15 |
There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man. |
| 7:21 |
For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, |
| 7:22 |
thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. |
| 7:23 |
All these evils procede from within and pollute a man.” |
